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Angels & Demons: See O'Malley's Rome church

Built in 1605, after the book was published it suddenly became a well-known tourist attraction.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley celebrated Mass at the church on the Sunday before the Papal Conclave began.

Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons features the building, but for purposes of his novel, the writer moved it to a different location in Rome.

The church is small by the standards of some churches in Rome and located on a side street, but the interior is spectacular.

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his day. It was completed in 1622

While some have suggested the statue connotes sexual rapture, others believe Bernini aimed to express the facial and body equivalents of a state of divine joy.

In Angels and Demons, the church is the site of the third murder in the book.

In the book, Cardinal Guidera suffers death by burning.

The book's protagonist, Robert Langdon, is unable to save the Cardinal.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley is the 17th Cardinal-Priest of the church.

During the Mass on Sunday, Cardinal Sean O'Malley joked "When I took possession of this beautiful Church I said to the Carmelite Fathers, jokingly, that I thought I could bring the Statue of Saint Teresa made by Bernini back home to Boston."

O'Malley also joked "In this beautiful, Cardinatial titular Church, I want to assure you that after the Conclave I will be back as your Cardinal and probably I will try to take the St. Teresa statue back to Boston"

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